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Hypnotist: Gil
Eagles Interview
RAIVIPAGE:
Gyruss RG7 Debuts
FORAM: Our New
Special Section
Volume 59 Number 10 SUNY College of Technology at Farmingdale February 14, 1988
Flambler
SUNY Campuses Enter "Very Difficult Period"
Albany, January 17th - The Chancellor of
the State University of New York today said
SUNY would move promptly to determine how
it would operate under the constraints of the
1989-90 Executive Budget recommendations
while making every effort to maintain the quality
of education.
Commented Chancellor D. Bruce
Johnstone:
"The University will bear its pan of the
solution to the serious financial plight facing
New York State. Our major concern must be that
the steps we take cause the least long term dam-age
to higher education.
"The budget is not yet final, and I know
the Governor and the Legislature are continuing
to seek new solutions. However, because our 64
campuses must begin now to prepare for this very
difficult period, I must make clear to the Univer-sity
Community the serious implications of this
proposed budget.
"Our campuses have been doing more
with less real resources for at least the last ten
years, and in the current fiscal year alone have
absorbed permanent budget reductions of more
than $10 million. The 1989-90 Executive Budget
now confronts us with the prospect of a further
operations cut of approximately $55 million at
the 34 State campuses plus another $10 million
cut to the budgets of the three University hospi-tals.
"The proposed State's share of operating
support for the University's 30 locally-spon-sored
Community Colleges is tantamount to a cut
of $12-million, leaving those campuses without
funding for salary increases or inflation.
"The proposed budget will require elimi-nation
of at least 650 presently filled jobs at the
State campuses. Clearly this is a retrenchment
budget.
"Barring any relief, the University must
anticipate some curtailment and even elimina-tion
of academic programs, cutbacks in student
and community services and losses in enroll-ment.
"While campus closures will not be a
response to cuts in the 1989-90 budget, we can-not
preclude other campus structural changes,
such as school or major program phase-outs.
"Given the damage inherent in the pro-posed
budget, an increase in tuition must be a
serious consideration.
"There also are 'pluses' to an otherwise
bleak budget. The governor has increased his
support of the Graduate and Research Initiative
and the programs for academic equipment, child
care and undergraduate minority scholarships. In
addition the governor's proposed budget is an
evenhanded, very straightforward document, fully
respecting the principles of flexibility and cam-pus
autonomy signed into law two years ago.
"We have begun working with campus
presidents and their staffs to determine how we
can best manage cuts which will range between
4 and 6 per cent of total campus operating budg-ets.
Our objective will be the most effective and
responsible course possible."

Hypnotist: Gil
Eagles Interview
RAIVIPAGE:
Gyruss RG7 Debuts
FORAM: Our New
Special Section
Volume 59 Number 10 SUNY College of Technology at Farmingdale February 14, 1988
Flambler
SUNY Campuses Enter "Very Difficult Period"
Albany, January 17th - The Chancellor of
the State University of New York today said
SUNY would move promptly to determine how
it would operate under the constraints of the
1989-90 Executive Budget recommendations
while making every effort to maintain the quality
of education.
Commented Chancellor D. Bruce
Johnstone:
"The University will bear its pan of the
solution to the serious financial plight facing
New York State. Our major concern must be that
the steps we take cause the least long term dam-age
to higher education.
"The budget is not yet final, and I know
the Governor and the Legislature are continuing
to seek new solutions. However, because our 64
campuses must begin now to prepare for this very
difficult period, I must make clear to the Univer-sity
Community the serious implications of this
proposed budget.
"Our campuses have been doing more
with less real resources for at least the last ten
years, and in the current fiscal year alone have
absorbed permanent budget reductions of more
than $10 million. The 1989-90 Executive Budget
now confronts us with the prospect of a further
operations cut of approximately $55 million at
the 34 State campuses plus another $10 million
cut to the budgets of the three University hospi-tals.
"The proposed State's share of operating
support for the University's 30 locally-spon-sored
Community Colleges is tantamount to a cut
of $12-million, leaving those campuses without
funding for salary increases or inflation.
"The proposed budget will require elimi-nation
of at least 650 presently filled jobs at the
State campuses. Clearly this is a retrenchment
budget.
"Barring any relief, the University must
anticipate some curtailment and even elimina-tion
of academic programs, cutbacks in student
and community services and losses in enroll-ment.
"While campus closures will not be a
response to cuts in the 1989-90 budget, we can-not
preclude other campus structural changes,
such as school or major program phase-outs.
"Given the damage inherent in the pro-posed
budget, an increase in tuition must be a
serious consideration.
"There also are 'pluses' to an otherwise
bleak budget. The governor has increased his
support of the Graduate and Research Initiative
and the programs for academic equipment, child
care and undergraduate minority scholarships. In
addition the governor's proposed budget is an
evenhanded, very straightforward document, fully
respecting the principles of flexibility and cam-pus
autonomy signed into law two years ago.
"We have begun working with campus
presidents and their staffs to determine how we
can best manage cuts which will range between
4 and 6 per cent of total campus operating budg-ets.
Our objective will be the most effective and
responsible course possible."